Monday, March 7th 2022
Chinese OEM Creates 6GB RTX 3060 Laptop GPU-based Desktop Graphics Cards for Miners
A Chinese PC components OEM started making desktop graphics cards with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU. Why, you ask? NVIDIA did not feel the need to enable LHR (lite hash-rate) limiters for its Laptop GPUs. This genius contraption also benefits from the lower TDP and aggressive power management of the mobile GPU. What's more, the OEM combined the GPU with 6 GB of memory as per its specification, not having to do 12 GB.
Pairing this with a fairly basic-looking cooling solution, the card is able to sell for as low as $540 a piece when bought in bulk quantities. Based on the same "GA106" silicon as its desktop counterpart, the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU has more CUDA cores—3,840 vs. 3,584, albeit with lower memory amount (which doesn't matter for mining), and tighter clock-speeds. The increased CUDA core count, along with lack of LHR, make this an interesting contraption.
Sources:
CNBeta, VideoCardz
Pairing this with a fairly basic-looking cooling solution, the card is able to sell for as low as $540 a piece when bought in bulk quantities. Based on the same "GA106" silicon as its desktop counterpart, the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU has more CUDA cores—3,840 vs. 3,584, albeit with lower memory amount (which doesn't matter for mining), and tighter clock-speeds. The increased CUDA core count, along with lack of LHR, make this an interesting contraption.
29 Comments on Chinese OEM Creates 6GB RTX 3060 Laptop GPU-based Desktop Graphics Cards for Miners
i guess.
they even helpfully nuked them graphics outs, cant have gamers steal those precious cards from them miners! (lets face it if you only use the single hdmi out for a puny single display, you're not a gamer anyways soXD)
Regarding the news, it's a good idea, the mobile GPUs are very efficient compared to normal ones. Unfortunately gamers get f*cked again, we better prostitute ourselves now, everyone is using us anyways.
This might be the first chinese made fake with good performance
Believe it or not, the 3060, ti and 3070 sell out within hours while 3080ti's and 3050's are on shelves for lot longer. If it is geared towards mining, then its a far better deal since the 3060 LHR v2 gets roughly 35mhs average (dual mine and you get way more). In gaming? not sure. Maybe better than the 3050 desktop?
The price is indeed still high though. Making it rather a deal breaker unless easily available.
What you see here is a PCI-E MXM module that can hold up to 2 MXM GPU's working in crossfire.
But looking at the costs a real desktop GPU would be better.
And if you have plenty of money, you can actually pay someone to "design" you a custom based PCB:
A 4x Polaris (RX480/RX580) on a single PCB.